Career Development

Head off burnout and heat up your veterinary career with these hot tips to grow in your profession and offer the highest level of service and care for people and pets at your practice.

Use this client handout to teach pet owners about the risks of parasites for indoor-only cats.

Are you managing or micromanaging your veterinary team? Take this quiz to find out:

Are you managing or micromanaging your veterinary team? Take this quiz to find out:

Should a veterinarian disclose a non-life-threatening error to a boarding client?

List outlines horse organizations, veterinary health professionals, animal protection organizations, horse industry professionals, newspaper editorial boards, lawmakers and celebrities that endorse the PAST Act.

Incorrect answer: A dental radiography curiosity in a corgi

Q: If a client refuses our pet care recommendations and signs a waiver, how protected is my practice legally?

Resident ethics expert and readers discuss solutions for two veterinary practice scenarios, including a laboratory error and an unused cancer drug.

You may have found yourself dealing with an ailing pet, its angry owners and stiff competition from a nearby veterinary clinic. Use these tips to help you steer clear of detrimental, reactive practices and focus on providing the best care possible-proactively.

By handling feline friends with special veterinary care, we can begin to change diabolical and hysterical stereotypes of them.

A unique business structure allows these veterinarians to provide great care while keeping their autonomy as doctors.

A new crop of board-certified specialists are bringing top-notch care and convenience to veterinary practices across the country.

Turnover calculator for veterinary practices

Take a look at three hypothetical situations and answer the corresponding questions to see if you can recognize sexual harassment at your veterinary practice.

Answer 1C a)

Answer 1A a)

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It's time to gain control over your financial health in veterinary practice-and Veterinary Economics is here to help.

Being busy in a veterinary hospital doesn't mean being productive-or profitable.

Break lazy management habits by identifying how you've grown complacent-it's uncomfortable, but necessary.

Introduce your wellness plan to pet owners.

One veterinarian queries an ethics expert and Facebook readers seize the chance to respond.

Q: We've recently had a string of traumatic cases at my hospital, and I'm worried my staff might be suffering from compassion fatigue. What can I do to help?

Avoid grandiose statements to promote your veterinary clinic-instead, stick to the facts and stay out of legal trouble.

Two simple but savvy media lessons for veterinary practitioners thrust into difficult discussions about the profession-in the exam room or on TV.

Take care of these critical items in January 2014 to reap the rewards all year in practice success, team morale and better medicine at your veterinary hospital.

An array of visitors pass through the doors of veterinarian offices. Some clients are more of an annoyance than a pleasure to work with. Here are the top five worst clients to deal with.